Daniel da Mota

Daniel da Mota
Personal information
Full name Daniel da Mota Alves
Date of birth (1985-09-11) 11 September 1985
Place of birth Ettelbrück, Luxembourg
Height 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position Striker
Club information
Current team
F91 Dudelange
Number 9
Youth career
FC Etzella Ettelbruck
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2001–2008 FC Etzella Ettelbruck 133 (77)
2008– F91 Dudelange 138 (46)
National team
2007– Luxembourg 69 (4)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 29 May 2014.
† Appearances (goals)

‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 27 March 2016

Daniel da Mota Alves[1][2] (born 11 September 1985) is a Luxembourgian football striker of Portuguese origin, who plays in Luxembourg for F91 Dudelange.

Club career

Da Mota finished the 2005–06 season of the Luxembourg National Division as the joint-sixth top goalscorer, and the second-best placed Luxembourgian footballer.

The following season, da Mota scored 24 goals (fully 40% of all of second-placed Ettelbruck's goals), finishing as the league's top goalscorer.[3] In July 2008, he left FC Etzella Ettelbruck and moved for 65,000 Euro to F91 Dudelange.

International career

Born in Luxembourg to Portuguese parents, Da Mota took up Luxembourgish citizenship in January 2007[4] and made his debut for Luxembourg in a June 2007 European Championship qualification match against Albania. His first two international goals helped Luxembourg defeat Slovakia by a score of 2–1 on 9 February 2011. He scored his second international goal on 7 September 2012 in a World Cup qualifier against Portugal in a 2–1 defeat.

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